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In the “gig economy,” where algo­rithms drive matches between workers and cus­tomers, hiring someone should be bias free, right? Not so, according to new research led by Northeastern’s Christo Wilson. The find­ings sug­gest racial and gender biases exhib­ited by two promi­nent online free­lance mar­ket­places, TaskRabbit and Fiverr.

A team led by Northeastern’s Christo Wilson shows that Amazon is much more likely to point buyers to sellers who use an auto­mated prac­tice called algo­rithmic pricing, even though those sellers’ prices may be higher than others’.

Ennio Min­golla, new chair of the Depart­ment of Speech Lan­guage Pathology and Audi­ology, explores the way our brains process visual stim­u­la­tion for the pur­pose of devel­oping “sighted” robots and other applications.

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